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To be fair, Britain's kind of a loose cannon at the moment and seems to be isolating themselves from the rest of the world. Er wait, America is kind of a loose cannon and...oh what the heck. Yeah, let's buckle up.

Makes me think of this joke, I want to say it was Vir Das, about how the English complain about Indian people showing up in their country, refusing to adapt culturally, and trying to make a mini version of their country in someone else's land and he just goes, "Now where on Earth would we have learned to do THAT?"

Honestly, these comments are back to being overrated drivel because the controversial comments are low-effort shit that gets upvoted by one side. Not genuinely controversial or thought-provoking sentiments.

It doesn't really matter how they publicly treat him or if May goes on TV and says some shit. Ultimately what matters is the actions they take. Who cares if some symbolic gestures take place if Britain ends up caving to American pressure and does what Trump wants it to do.

Not even that, really. For the UK, the American colonies is a relatively small chapter in the middle of an extremely long list of countries that declared independence from the British Empire. It doesn't hold a candle to, say, the independence of what was then British India.

UK police have been criticised for detaining overnight three pro-democracy protesters, one a veteran of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and raiding their homes.

Shao Jiang, who was granted political asylum after being jailed in China for his involvement in the 1989 protest, was arrested in London on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to contravene public order and commit threatening behaviour.

Video posted by the activists on Twitter showed Mr Shao holding two A4-size leaflets in the street outside Mansion House, where Chinese president Xi Jinping was due to attend a business summit, and then being tackled by at least four police officers.

Tibetan Community in Britain said two activists were arrested after trying to wave Tibetan flags as Mr Xi’s car passed. The group said the activists, identified only as Sonam, 30, and Jamphel, 33, were “forcefully taken away by police”. It said they were initially told they were not being arrested, but then were, following a countermanding order.

*EDIT: To those who don't get the reference, the president of China is often given the nick name "Winnie the Pooh" by those who do not support him, for obvious reasons. He hates this, and goes out of his way to censor any voice that insults him.

A few people on facebook are painting the protest as Khan having a go at Trump, but he's doing the right thing by allowing people to protest freely. He's also allowed a number of right-wing protests this year.

Edit: just to clarify, as Mayor of London Khan absolutely should be the one to say whether a protest that involves hundreds or thousands of people marching down the street and stopping traffic should go ahead or not. This isn't about free speech, this is about logistics. If protests aren't coordinated with the authorities then the police would have every right to come along and nick everyone for holding up traffic. This doesn't mean that Khan is some kind of dictator, deciding what views gets to be expressed.

This should be updated more. The protest organisers have done it the right way and Mahan has done the right thing.

This isn't about being allowed to or not (the protest was going to happen regardless of what anyone said) but it is more effective and safer for everyone when the boundaries and impact are understood and agreed.

To give a Brit's explanation on why we're treating Trump this way, there are three important things to remember:

Mockery of politicians, especially senior ones, is more common here. This is because the Prime Minister is, to this day, usually aristocratic or supported by the aristocracy and this is our way of getting back.

Britain is more left-leaning than the United States. The Conservative Party, our Republicans, are politically closest to the Democrats, meaning that the vast majority of Britons consider Trump incredibly right-wing, even for a Republican President.

Trump is very outspoken. Britain still has a culture of reservedness and Trump being so frank, particularly while making controversial, bigoted and blatantly incorrect statements is still shocking for us.

The combination of these three factors creates the perfect target for absolute mockery. In my experience, Britons who actually support or like Trump are seen by many as being a few scones short of a cream tea, meaning that Trump is, rather pleasantly, someone that most Britons on the political spectrum can agree to dislike.

The other day at Boots someone had the gall to miss the entire pharmacy queue and stood waiting behind the person being served. Somehow I mustered up the courage to point out we weren’t all just stood queuing here for the fun of it, still don’t know how I managed it.

A week ago someone jumped the queue at co-op blathering something about 'I just need one thing' and I froze. It's the biggest regret of my recent life. I wasn't expecting it, the fucking gall I mean - I'm genuinely still annoyed about it right now. All I did was stare absolute daggers at the bloke whilst I was served and as I walked out, whilst fantasising about what I could have said.

I'm just glad they can do it peacefully. Last time Americans tried to protest a British ruler it didn't go down quite so well. People got massacred, tea got thrown in the harbor, it was a whole big thing.

He did, he just kept it to an appropriate venue. Watch his correspondents' dinner routines, all of them take some swipes at Fox news et all. The last one roasts Trump pretty hard, but doesn't avoid a few punches at Hillary and Bernie as well.

The difference, of course, is when Obama showed up to an ally's country these kinds of massive protests didn't happen. Remember Obama's speech in Germany? They were very happy to see him. But, according to the GOP, it was Obama who damaged the US's reputation around the world. Right.

He's going to fuck up, he's going to do dumb shit, but holy hell if I'm not already sick and tired of hearing about EVERY screwup from the obscene to the (relatively) minor, and they're all played off as world ending so there's no quick way to tell the difference or even get accurate information without actually digging through everything myself.

People in countries have the right to protest how they see fit, as long as it’s non violent, such as this. I may believe it’s stupid, but that’s for me to think and them to not give a fuck about what I think.

What I can’t understand is the lack of protest when literal dictators come to town. Putin literally facilitated the murder of a British citizen recently, (through failed assassination of someone else) and from what our media has covered, the British people don’t seem to care. No mass protest, no real demands, nothing. China, Turkey, etc. literally round up dissidents, ‘bad’ journalists, and opposing political groups, and I haven’t seen a peep about protests when they arrive.

As a republican and a pretty big supporter of Trump I don’t care at all. It’s their right to protest, so let them protest all they want. The balloon is a bit immature (its also funny though), but Trump brings that kind of stuff on himself lol.

Any republicans that are getting pissy about this are being hypocrites

Just wanted to say that you seem very level-headed and like a pretty good person. I lean left myself, and very vehemently dislike the President, but it's good to be reminded sometimes that people on the other side are... well, people, despite what discourse would tend to suggest.

The "us" vs "them" mentality really is disappointing to see in this country. The vast majority of Americans are good, honest people just trying to live their lives. It's a shame that people are losing sight of that

I wouldn't be surprised if there are bots in these comments. A comment that actually gives a logical opinion on why they aren't in favor of it receives -6000, but a comment that literally says "Fuck trump and all of his supporters" is at +10000. I've never seen anything like that.